Pit River Nation Marks First Day of Native American Heritage Month By Calling For Swift Acton to Protect Ancestral Lands in Northern California

BURNEY, Calif. (Nov 1, 2023) – On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, the Pit River Nation is underscoring the urgent need to protect ancestral homelands and spiritual sites currently managed by the US Forest Service in Northern California. The Pit River Nation is calling on President Biden and California’s federal delegaon to put in place national monument protecons for a lile more than 200,000 acres in the Medicine Lake Highlands about 30 miles from Mount Shasta,…